From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 23 11:17:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA15211 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 11:17:30 -0700 Received: from netcom23.netcom.com (root@netcom23.netcom.com [192.100.81.137]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA15204 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 11:17:27 -0700 Received: from snoopy.net1.vpm.com by netcom23.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id LAA03247; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 11:14:08 -0700 Message-Id: <199509231814.LAA03247@netcom23.netcom.com> X-Sender: mcstout@netcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 11:14:29 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Mark Stout Subject: Partitioning hard drive problems detailed Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I am having what appears to be problems getting the partitions. Here's what I have as far as hard drives with their geometries from Maxtor which I set using the partition editor's 'G' option and the error/warnings I get during the creation of the slices. Can anyone see a problem? 1 Conner CP3H104 (120MB IDE) 762/8/32 Warning: calc. sectors per cyl. (3657) disagrees with disk label (312) Warning: 1 sec. in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rwd2a 237704 sectors in 65 cylnider of 1 track, 3657 sectors 116.1MB in 5 cyl groups (16 c/g, 28.57MB/g, 6848 i/g) ******************************************************************** 1 Maxtor LXT-535S 1560/11/47 FUNCTIONAL: * Data zones.................... 8 * Bit density (Kbpi)............ 33-44 * Track density (tpi)........... 1,600 * Disks......................... 6 * Data heads.................... 11 * Servo heads................... 1 * Physical tracks............... 17,072 * Sectors per track............. 47-72 * Physical cylinders............ 1,560 Warning: calc. sec. per cyl. (3705) disagrees with disk label (517) /mnt/dev/rsd0s1e: 1044810 sec in 282 cylnider of 1 track, 3705 sec. 510.2MB in 18 cyl groups (16 c/g, 28.95MB/g, 6976 i/g) ******************************************************************** 1 Maxtor MXT-1240S 2512/15/44 SPECIFICATIONS: Formatted: ..................... 1,240 Million bytes Embedded Controller: ........... SCSI Spare capacity (Mbytes) ........ 7.7 Number of Disks: ............... 8 Data Surfaces: ................. 16 Data Heads: .................... 15 Servo Heads: ................... 1 Physical tracks: ............... 37,689 Bytes per Block: ............... 512 Sectors per track: ............. 44-85 Physical cylinders: ............ 2,512 Warning: calc. sec. per cyl.(2695) disagrees with disk label (660) Warning: 2684 sectors in last cylinder unallocated /mnt/dev/rsd1s1e: 2422816 sec in 900 cylnider of 1 track, 2695 sec. 1183.0MB in 57 cyl groups (16 c/g, 21.05MB/g, 5056 i/g) ******************************************************************** 2 Maxtor LXT-213S 1320/7/34 FUNCTIONAL: * Data zones.................... 6 * Bit density (Kbpi)............ 27-29 * Track density (tpi)........... 1,591 * Disks......................... 4 * Data heads.................... 7 * Servo heads................... 1 * Physical tracks............... 9,240 * Sectors per track............. 34-56 * Physical cylinders............ 1,320 Warning: calc. sec. per cyl.(4096) disagrees with disk label (244) /mnt/dev/rsd2s1e: 204800 sec in 50 cylnider of 1 track, 4096 sec. 100.0MB in 4 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 7680 i/g) Warning: calc. sec. per cyl.(3241) disagrees with disk label (244) Warning: 3236 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /mnt/dev/rsd2s1f: 210670 sec in 66 cylnider of 1 track, 3241 sec. 102.9MB in 5 cyl groups (16 c/g, 35.32MB/g, 6080 i/g) Warning: calc. sec. per cyl.(4096) disagrees with disk label (244) /mnt/dev/rsd3s1e: 208896 sec in 51 cylnider of 1 track, 4096 sec. 102.0MB in 4 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 7680 i/g) I have a 100MB Swap partition on sd3. I have looked at pfdisk and that gives me totally different geometries like: LXT-535S 510/64/32 MXT-1240S 150/255/63 LXT-213S 202/64/32 However, using the geometries from pfdisk and using the geometries from Maxtor, doesn't matter. I still get the errors. When I attempt to delete the partitions and start over, it has even different geometries that it's using like: LXT-535S 510/64/32 now has 2021/11/47 MXT-1240S 150/255/63 now has 3671/15/44 LXT-213S 202/64/32 now has 1703/4/61 All this is driving me nuts. I also can't mount the root partition, so I know something is wrong. If anyone has a solution, I"d really like to hear it. 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